644 Div. 3. ARTICULATA.— INSECTA. Class 3. 



HI. Pedestres, Mesotliorax in front, contracted ; retiring from the prosternum and permitting a freer motion 

 of the prothorax, approaching the structure of the Cicindelidse ; including the Ilarpalida:, Scaritidce, and Brach- 

 jnidffi of Mac Leay. 



The Carabici of Denmark have been carefully revised by Schiodte. 



The Premices Entomologitiues of Putzeys (Mem. Soc. Liege, Vol. II), contains a monograph of Pasimachus, 

 and an allied genus and a great number of new species belonging to this tribe. The same author has also more 

 recently published a very extensive monograph on the genera allied to Clivina. 



A remarkable genus allied to Procrustes from Xanthos, has been described by White (Ann. Nat. Hist. Vol. XV). 

 Various new African species allied to Anthia arc described by Bertoloni, the American species allied to Scarites 

 subterraneus, by Le Comte, (Boston Journal); and many new Kussian species by Kolenati (Meletemata En- 

 tomologica). A group of small extent, but very singular structure, and remarkable fur the strong resemblance 

 to aquatic beetles, has been proposed under the name of Ileteromorphidae to include the American genus 

 Drepanus, and the Australian Adelotopus and Silphomorpha (Westwood in Linn. Trans. Vol. XVIII). The 

 Carabidie of the Voyage of the Beagle, collected by Mr. C. Darwin, have been described by 'Waterhouse in various 

 papers in the Annals of Natural History. The Scaritidaj of New Holland, several of which are of singular 

 beauty, have been il'ustrated in my Arcana Entomologica, and the Australian Promecoderi, by Guerin, (Uevuo 

 Zool.) ; the Carabici of India are carefully described by Schmidt Gobel in the first part of his work upon the 

 collection in the Museum of Prague ; the species allied to Ilelluo (p. 495), have been revised by Reiche, .and divided 

 into nine genera. (Annales of the French Ent. .Soc.) Many additional exotic genera and species have also been 

 described by Bohemann and by Chaudoir, in the Bulletin of the Moscow Society, 1S12 and 1813. Hope, Newman, 

 Lucas, Chcvrolat, Menetries, Gebler, Redtenbacher, Erichson, White, and others, have also described many new 

 detached species and genera. The species of California and Sitka have been monographed by Mannerheim, and those 

 of Columbia by Reiche. The British species have been revised by Schaum, in the Entomol. Zeitung. Amongst the 

 most remarkable of these new genera, is Anopthalmus of Sturm, founded on a blind species which inhabits the 

 Lucger Caves, in Krania. A second blind species was .also found in the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, by 

 Tellkampf. 



The family Dtticids (p. 504), has received some additions of Danish species by Schiodte, in "Danmark's 

 Eleutherata." The species found near Erlangen have been monographed by Rosenliauer, and various detached 

 species have been described by other authors. The singular external marks of distinction in the sexes of some of 

 the species have been described by Count Mannerhi.im ; and Dr. Schmidt has investigated the causes of the sound 

 emitted by Pelobius Hermanni. Dr. Schaum has revised the British species, and also published notes on tlie 

 synonymy of many of the European ones in the Entomol. Zeitung. 



The Gtbinid;e, {p. 506). The German species have been revised by Suffrian (Entomol. Zeit.), and Von Keisen- 

 wetter has published some interesting observations on the habits of Orectochilus Villosus in the same work. 



The BBAcnELYTBA (p. 50C), have received great additions since the first edition of this work. Erichson's 

 Genera and Species Staphylinorum has been completed in two 8vo. volumes. In this work, the Brachelytra are 

 divided into eleven primary tribes, characterized chieiiy by the conspicuous or hidden position of the breathing 

 pores of the prothorax, the insertion of the Antenna?, the form of the anterior anil posterior coxae, and of the 

 posterior trochanters. These tribes are named from their typical genera.— 1. Aleocharini ; 2. Tachyporini ; 

 3. Staphylinini; 4. Prcderini ; 5. Pinophilini ; C. Stenini ; 7. Oxytelini ; 8. Piestini; 9. Phlxocharlni ; 10. Oma- 

 lini ; 11. Proteiuini. The Linnse.an species of this tribe have been revised by me in an article published in the 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society. Mr. Holme has also published some interesting notes in the 3rd 

 A'olume of the s.ame work; and Mr. Ilaliday has published some valuable "Notes on the St.aphyhnida;," in tlie 

 Entomologist. The numerous species of this tribe which reside in ant's nests, have formed the suliject of many 

 p.apers in Germar's Zeitschrift, and in the Entomol. Zeitung by dilTerent authors. Numerous species from Sitka 

 Island, are described by Count Mannerheim ; others from Angola by Erichson ; and otliers from New Granada by 

 Guerin. The German species have been revised by Kiesenwetter, in the Entomol. Zeitung. An excellent article on 

 the curious genus Micr.alymma Westw., has also been published by Schiodte, (Linna;a Entomol.) 



The BuPKESTiDES (p. .'308), have been enriched with many new and beautiful exotic species by Spinola, Guerin, 

 Chevrolat, Buquet, Erichson, Lucas, and White. The transformations of various si)ecics have been described by 

 rechioli, Lamotte Baracc, Lucas, Leon Dufour, and Bcrtolini. A discussion on tlie structure of these larvaj 

 between L. Dufour, Goureau and Blanchard, has been published in the Annals of the French Entomol. Society. 



The splendid (but as regards its generical anatomical details, carelessly executed) work of Gory and L.aporte, 

 has been brought to a conclusion, and a review of it been published by Spinola in the Kevue Zoologique. 



The Elatebides (p. 510), luave undergone an extensive revision by Germar and Erichson, in the Zeitschrift fur 

 die Entomologie. The luminous species allied to E. Noctilucus, of which the number is now known to be consi- 

 derable, have been formed into a scpar.ito genus named Pyrophorus. V.arious detached exotic species have been 

 described by diiTerent authors. The splendid genus Campsosternus, and the remarkable gigantic species with fla- 

 bcllate antenna;, have been monograjjlied by Mr. Hope in the Tr.ms. Entomol. Soc, and Proceedings of the Zool. 

 Society ; and some very beautiful Indi.an species have been figured in my Cabinet of Oriental Entomology. Tho 

 Natur.al History of many .species injurious to the Agriculturist, has been published by Mr. Curtis in the Journal 

 of tlie Royal Agricultur.al Society. 



The sub-genera .allied to Galba and Eucnemis (p. .'JlO), have been revised by Guerin in the Annals of the French 

 Eiitninological Society, in which tlie sjiecius, all of which are highly interesting, are divided into seventeen 

 gencr.a. 



The CfiBBioNnES (p. Oil), have been investigated with much care by M. Guerin, in the first three numbers of 



